Charles Barkley isn’t ready to give up on Phil Jackson’s ability to be a success as the Knicks team president, saying this season was doomed by injuries to Joakim Noah and a lackluster year by Derrick Rose.

“Has he done a good job? No,” Barkley said about Jackson during a press conference in Manhattan on Tuesday to promote the start of March Madness. “But it’s only because the Rose and Noah thing didn’t work out. Coming into the season we were all optimistic. I’m a big Noah fan and Derrick Rose was going to be a free agent, so he was going to have a monster year. That’s what I thought going in and it just hasn’t worked out.”

Jackson acquired Rose in an offseason trade and spent $72 million to get Noah as a free agent. Noah was hampered by a hamstring injury most of the year and is now out with a knee injury. Rose hasn’t had the impact the Knicks had hoped. He is averaging 17.7 points per game, two points below his career average, and seems disconnected from the overall structure of the offense. He was benched in the fourth quarter of the Knicks’ 113-105 victory at Orlando on Monday.

Barkley reiterated his thinking that the Knicks disrespected Carmelo Anthony to the point where he should find another team that wants his services.

Barkley said he couldn’t remember any time during his career as a player or broadcaster where a general manager or team president called out a star player like that.

“Never,” Barkley said.

Barkley will be talking mostly college basketball this month as part of the CBS, TNT, TBS and TruTV coverage of the NCAA Tournament. The networks are spreading coverage over 15 different platforms and have extended their contract through 2032.

“Sometimes you’re trying to make people think everybody has a chance,” Barkley said of the parity in this year’s tournament. “But there are 15 teams that could win it.”

He pointed to two things critical to success in the NCAA: guard play and coaching.

“I’ve found out who can really coach,” Barkley said. “A lot of these guys don’t make good in-game adjustments. They never change their game plans. But the coaches who make the best in-game adjustments are the ones that can really coach. That’s why you see so many upsets. In this tournament if you make a tweak here or there, you can win this thing.”